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Staffing Matters: Is the glass half full?
I’ve discussed the use of apprenticeships within our sector in several of my recent columns and expressed my concerns about the struggle to attract talent because of the poor perception and understanding of the sector, particularly among the under 25s.I have also questioned whether apprenticeships might be part of the ...
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Strong 2014 for Walkers Transport
Leeds-based Palletways member Walkers Transport has said it expects to show an 8% year-on-year increase in combined group turnover to £17m for calendar year 2014.The haulier said its Leeds depot, which has acted as the northern hub for Palletways since 2012, is now processing 3,500 pallets a night. Previously those ...
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ArticleFees Fors Fo Fum: paying the price for success?
Fors (or, in full, the Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme as it's now known) is by any measure a successful scheme.Nurtured by TfL since inception in 2008, it now has 2,400 companies in membership, representing some 210,000 vehicles.Around two-thirds of these members are also based outside of London, although will likely ...
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ArticleWolseley launches apprenticeship scheme for aspiring drivers
Plumbing and heating products supplier Wolseley is launching a year-long apprenticeship scheme for aspiring HGV drivers at two of its DCs.The scheme is being delivered in partnership with Telford College and offers a training package worth £7,000 comprising both classroom-based and on the road training, including technical training, maths and ...
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RHA meets with business secretary to highlight driver shortage issue
The RHA has met with business secretary Vince Cable to highlight the impact the current driver shortage is having on the economy and how it could be addressed.In a meeting last week RHA chief executive Richard Burnett also put across the industry’s need for a government training fund to help ...
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ArticleUK pallet networks ring the changes
The UK’s pallet networks have made a host of new appointments for 2015.With Palletline having named former ARR Craib group distribution director Graham Leitch as its new MD recently, the United Pallet Network (UPN) has followed suit and made two key appointments of its own.Jayne Lowndes has joined as regional ...
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Skills for Logistics begins creditors' voluntary liquidation
Skills for Logistics (SfL) is to begin the process of a creditors’ voluntary liquidation to wind-up its operation.A spokesman for Manchester-based corporate insolvency firm Begbies Traynor, who confirmed the decision to MotorTransport.co.uk, added that a creditors' meeting would be held on 9 February.The company announced earlier this month that SfL ...
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ArticleAcumen Distribution puts four more longer semi-trailers into operation
Acumen Distribution has put four more 15.65m longer semi-trailers on the road, taking the total number of trailers it operates under the DfT trial to 21. The SDC trailers are to be put into operation on three return routes from Sunderland to Wednesbury, Sunderland to Telford and Redditch to Middleton. ...
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M&S set to close DHL-run Coventry DC
Marks & Spencer (M&S) has revealed plans to cease operations at its Coventry DC, which is owned and operated by partner DHL Supply Chain, from April. An M&S spokesman told Motortransport.co.uk that the proposal is part of its supply chain transformation programme, which was launched in 2009 and aims to ...
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ArticleEddie Stobart ends dispute with former Tesco drivers
Eddie Stobart has ended a long-running dispute with 184 HGV drivers that had been pursuing an unfair dismissal claim relating to the logistics giant taking over the running of a Tesco DC in Doncaster in 2012.At a meeting that took place prior to an employment tribunal hearing in Sheffield last ...
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ArticleWincanton wins BAE Systems' UK shipbuilding logistics contract
Wincanton has been awarded a new contract with defence manufacturer BAE Systems, to provide full logistics and warehousing services in support of its UK shipbuilding operations.This includes its programme to deliver three new River Class Offshore Patrol Vessels for the Royal Navy.The long-term agreement, which starts with the outsourcing of ...
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Suttons Group still strong despite Harvest Energy loss
The loss of customer Harvest Energy to Norbert Dentressangle in April 2014, after a competitive tender, has seen Suttons Group report £10.5m of discontinued activities in its UK road haulage business.In the year-ending 30 April 2014 Sutton and Son (St Helens) – which comprises its UK road tanker operations (Suttons ...
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ArticleGaps left in Bibby Supply Chain Services' management team
There appears to have been a great deal of change amongst the team at Bibby Supply Chain Services last month with the departure of not one, but two of its directors.Following the announcement that Iain Speak has stepped down from his position as chief executive to form his own consultancy, ...
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Paul Kavanagh appointed as R Swain & Sons MD
Paul Kavanagh has been named as MD at R Swain & Sons, replacing Bob Swain who stepped down last month.Kavanagh, formerly chief operating officer at Bibby Supply Chain Services, took up his new position at the Rochester, Kent-based operator on 1 January. Former MD Bob Swain has moved to a ...
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UK's thirst for diesel still growing
Nothing, it seems, can quench the UK’s thirst for diesel, with demand for the road fuel rising once again in the third quarter of 2014, according to new figures from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). Demand in Q3 for road diesel, including biodiesel, reached just under 7.1 ...
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Chancellor invites RHA chief executive to discuss driver shortage
Chancellor George Osborne has invited RHA chief executive Richard Burnett to a “formal roundtable discussion” with the Treasury and DfT to discuss possible government “intervention” to address the HGV driver shortage.The RHA has called for government grants to train UK residents to become HGV drivers rather than see an influx ...
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ArticleFormer APC chief Ziaullah acquires UK Shuttle
Former APC chief executive Syed Ziaullah has acquired Swindon-based parcels and pallet firm UK Shuttle for an undisclosed sum.The express delivery business is a member of The Pallet Network as well as parcel network APC Overnight, and operates a secure warehousing site with pick-and-pack options for customers.Ziaullah told MT the ...
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ArticleInformation: their stock-in-trade?
Tantalising scraps of information have emerged recently from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in response to The Hub’s enquiries about the case of a bag of post found dumped in a river in North London early last year.As readers will recall, the case involved the discovery last April of a ...
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City Link collapse hits operator pockets
An operator that worked as a subcontractor for City Link has claimed it has been left thousands of pounds out of pocket by the parcel carrier’s collapse last month.Speaking to Motortransport.co.uk Jim Timms, owner of Gloucester-based James Timms Transport, estimated that the firm is owed £113,000 by City Link for ...
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ArticlePrestons of Potto co-founder dies
Richard Preston, who co-founded haulage firm Prestons of Potto with his wife Anne, has died, aged 81.He started the business, now run by son and MD David, in 1957 as a successor to his father’s threshing contractor business, which was set up in 1936.Richard, who along with Anne remained chairman ...